The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-17
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Grifan's Depot Saved From the Flames
-Blakely Loses in the Suit With a
Company Manufacturing Fire En-
gines-A Mammoth Grape Vine Near
Blakely H H. Fudge, of Albany,
Acquitted on Charge of Robbery.
GEORGIA.
Worth Supe ior Court convenes this
week.
Tallapoosa real estate agents are doing a
lively business.
Tallapoosa's boom is putting new life into
all the neighboring villages
Romes First Methodist Church building
will have cost S42, 900 when 1t Is completed.
Only thirty-seven cases have been tried
by the Mayor of Brunswick this year, 50
far.
Putnam county shipped $4,000 pounds of
butter through Eatonton during the year
just ended.
The Greensboro Herald Georgian is out
in 16-page trade issue full of interesting
reading matter
From five acres B. NJ. Devane, of Berrien
county, has gathered seven bales of cotton,
and the end is not yet
Sixteen houses are being built by the
Camille Gold Mining Company, at their
mines near lalldpOOSd.
The Americas Recorder is out in hand
some new dress. Americas has good reason
TO he proud of so excellent a paper.
The Recorder of Augusta tried fifty-one
cases last week, and dismissed thirteen of
that number. The fines amounted to 1852.
The Central railroad passenger depot at
Griffin caught fire Friday, but the flames
were extinguished before much damage was
DONE
An effort is being made to erect fine
hotel in Elberton. Several thousand dol
lars have been promised, provided suffi-
cient sum can be raised.
A man with dog and bear tramped
through Smithville Wednesday night, on
his way 10 Macon. He said he was going
70 be on hand for the State Fair
a colored child living on the place of l. C.
Hill, near Monticello, fell into the fire few
days ago. AL ~ so badly burned as to re-
suit in dea n last Saturday night.
The vote on til, free school question at
Madison Monday was very light But little
interest was taken in the election, the vote
standing 26 for and - against the system.
The kitchen and dwelling house of Dave
Mckinney, living near Antioch Church,
were burned a few nights ago The fire
is supposed TO have caught from the kitchen
stove.
Judge J. C. Rooney, in chambers at Au-
gusta, appointed Irwin Alexander Commits
sioner of Deposit a., as there is a vacancy
in that office, ana there are over ten thou
sand inhabitants in the county.
NJ S. McCrarie. OF Odel, while going to
his work last Thursday morning, at the first
peep Of day. was attacked by large rae
coon. He treated till he could open his
knife, and a. the coon came on he cut him
to death.
j. II. Mo-, of Sumter county, affirms
that turkey hen hid her nest in his oat
patch, ana when the reapers were saving
the oats she was found, shortly after incu-
baton, having Matched seven turkeys, four
chickens and twenty-four guineas.
On Monday last house, on the place of
Capt. G. G. Clay, in Lee county, under the
management of Virg Duncan, was destroyed
by fire. There were some 10000 or 1900
pounds of fodder in the house which was all
destroyed. 1t is not known how the fire
originated.
At Augusta, since Oct. 1, twenty-slx mar
riage licenses have been issued-fifteen to
colored and eleven to white couples. Up to
noon Saturday 2S4 dray licenses twenty
five two-horse wagon licenses, two hack
licenses, and Ito retail liquor licenses had
been issued by Clerk Blome.
M. W. Wright, of Lincolnton, SAYS that
he has an old hen that for the past few
years has been contented with an inn
maculately white dress. She commenced
shedding short time since, and now as
tonishes the natives with bran new spick
and span costume of sombre black
Two colored farm hands living near
Smithville engaged in a hot quarrel last
week over the affections of dusky damsel
While they were fighting it out the damsel
herself pitched in and cleaned up the pair
of them. She said she didn't intend to have
any fighting around her, if she knew it,
There is a grape vine growing in the hum
mocks of Sawhatchee creek, near Blakely,
measuring twelve inches in diameter and
thirty-six inches in circumference. Those
who have seen the vine say it is the largest
known. A section of it will be put on. exhi-
bition at tie Piedmont Fair at Atlanta.
Jack Powell, of the Brentwood Reporter.
says: IF we succeed in scraping up enough
cash and borrowing some clothes suitable to
wear, we will attend the Piedmont EXPOSE
ton. If we fail in this, the President will
be disappointed in not seeing us, as it is too
far to walk, and our duster is not suitable
for October weather"
Last Sunday night William Jones, a re
spectacle colored man, of Newburn, lust
over the Morgan line, went home from rom
church to find some one in his potato patch.
Getting down his shotgun he emptied
the contents with deadly aim
shooting down another negro named Henry
Mark, who died from his wounds Monday.
An absent-minded man, who lives near
Smithville, having occasion to cross a
branch near his house the other night, car
ried with him a box of matches and q
lighted torch. When he reached the branch
the torch went out, whereupon he com
menced to yell for his wife to bring another
light When she arrived she calmly pointed
to the box of matches in his hand, and he
felt like fool
While Oscar Prince, of Morgan county
was loading cotton at Gardeners gin, seven
miles from Madison, Wednesday afternoon,
his mules became frightened, and in the
effort to get TO them his hand was caught
between the gin belt and large wheel below
the gin. In the twinkling of an eye his arm
was twisted and crushed most horribly. II
was torn from the socket at the elbow and
broken higher up, which made amputation
necessary.
well-known and highly esteemed mem.
Der of one of the Albany churches, having
occasion to use $50 in his business before
the banks opened Friday morning, dropped
into a merchants store on Broad street
Thursday night and asked for the loan OF
that amount until morning. A drummer
not familiar with the, character of the Dor
rover, standing near, after ne left inquired
with an air of wanting some fun himself
Is there little gar6o of poker upF'
1t now seems evident that the town Of
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